Top 48 Quotes About Overstate
#1. So, will his new gun laws - aimed primarily at law-abiding firearms owners - reduce the crime rate even further? Rock is hesitant to give a conclusive answer: "I think it will help. (But) I don't want to overstate it. I don't want to give any guarantees."
Allan Rock
#2. The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate,
Marc Andreessen
#3. Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
#4. Put your feelings out there to the other person. Let time, the universe, and destiny run its course. Don't overstate your feelings to other person and don't force the square peg.
David Mezzapelle
#5. The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.
Nolan Bushnell
#6. I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
Elizabeth Warren
#7. The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate
Dennis Prager
#8. It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps ... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.
Howard Whitley Eves
#9. In short - to overstate the point only slightly - because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#10. My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.
J.K. Rowling
#11. I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.
Hillary Clinton
#12. It's hard to overstate how deep the need can get for things to make sense.
John Darnielle
#13. I'm a guy whose first motion picture experience was seeing Ridley Scott glide past on a camera on a hundred and fifty million dollar film, and prep two movies, and there is no way to overstate that when you've worked with Ridley, it's like having been a quarterdeck lieutenant to Lord Nelson.
William Monahan
#14. It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.
Bill Gates
#15. It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.
Jerry Saltz
#16. One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.
Delia Ephron
#17. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.
Maude Barlow
#18. All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
Francois Truffaut
#19. Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to Boston.
Rob Sheffield
#20. I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.
Tom Frieden
#22. I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.
Anson Mount
#23. It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business.
Nicola Sturgeon
#24. Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
Tom Brokaw
#25. Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own image.
Rob Sheffield
#26. But I can't overstate God's promise: "Unload all your worries onto him, since he is looking after you" (1 Pet. 5:7 JB).
Max Lucado
#27. Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it.
Atul Gawande
#28. I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.
Robert Henri
#30. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
Bill Bryson
#31. From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
Esther Dyson
#32. People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
David Brudnoy
#33. It's impossible to overstate how my relationship to music forms a preserve for the esoteric or even spiritual aspect of my relationship to cultural stuff, to human expressivity ... it's a safe enclosure.
Jonathan Lethem
#34. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.
Hillary Clinton
#35. For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.
Dan Barber
#36. It's hard to overstate how utterly mad it is for a Fed chairman in the age of the global economy to claim that a weak currency only affects tourists. It's a little bit like saying a forest fire only really sucks if you're a woodpecker.
Matt Taibbi
#37. We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
Seth Godin
#38. We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion.
Will Tuttle
#41. It's nearly impossible to overstate how fully my father has devoted himself to Apollo Group and its mission since he created Apollo Group four decades ago.
Peter Sperling
#42. It was very difficult.
We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.
Gina Rinehart
#43. It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.
James Dobson
#46. This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.
John Sarbanes
#47. One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.
Ezra Klein
#48. I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
Steve Vai
